A
third of young adults in the UK 'don't know bacon comes from a pig'.
They
might spread it on toast every morning – but if you ask 16-23 year-olds where
butter comes from, many don’t have a clue.
And when it comes to the humble
bacon sandwich, a third are unaware its meaty filling comes from a pig – with
three per cent believing cows produce it.
A third are also ignorant of
where we get our milk and did not know that eggs came from chickens. Fifteen
per cent think they came from a crop, a Linking Environment And Farming report
says.
Caroline Drummond, chief
executive of Leaf, said: “We sometimes hear that our food knowledge may be
declining but this research shows how bad the situation has become.
“Three in ten adults born in the
nineties haven’t visited a farm in more than ten years, if at all, which is a
real shame for our farmers.”
Despite the 2,000 participants
being shown a picture of a dairy cow as part of the multiple choice quiz, 59
per cent still failed to say where butter originates.
And the poor results come in
spite of 43 per cent saying they know about the origins of the food they eat.
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